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National Voter Education Week(NVEW) is a digital voter education initiative that will take place the week of October 5-9, 2020. Read on for how you can get involved.

"Throughout our years of experience in the student voter engagement space, we have seen many efforts focused on voter registration and voter turnout, but few focused on voter education -- an essential component in ensuring that those who are registered actually cast a ballot.

Complementing the incredible success of National Voter Registration Day and the exciting launch of Vote Early Day, National Voter Education Week is a nonpartisan digital voter education campaign that equips voters with the tools, information, and confidence they need to cast their ballots. The full list of founding partners and steering committee members can be found in the press release here.

Please join us! We have two different partnership opportunities: Partners and Creatives. As a partner, we’ll share advanced resources with your organization, and will work together to make sure that information reaches young people across the country. Creatives will work with NVEW to craft unique and original content that can be shared widely to everyone participating in the campaign. To get involved, visit https://votereducationweek.org/partners. "

The National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC), home of the Civic Health Index, has just released a new resource, Pandemic to Prosperity.  They share the following:

History has shown that large-scale crises accelerate pre-existing trends and permanently change societies and civic life. While most of the nation’s attention is currently focused on the response to Covid-19, we must ensure that recovery efforts in the months and years ahead lead to a more just and equitable society. Pandemic to Prosperity offers a comprehensive overview of the Covid-related impacts on our lives and livelihoods, governments, civic institutions, and overall well being.

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Message from Campus Compact:

Given the great level of interest we had in our risk management webinar, we have decided to create a knowledge hub of resources. We are currently doing a call for resources related to risk management and community engagement. If your institution has guidelines that you would like to share with us, waiver forms, or other sorts of resources please submit them to Campus Compact via the form link below. Our hope is that this space will be a source of collective knowledge building and sharing. We look forward to reviewing and sharing the submissions.

https://forms.gle/fffXeer9W5xpGqEv5

A recording of the webinar is available on our website and YouTube channel.

The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) invites you to participate in its virtual Annual Meeting in July 2020. It is free and open to everyone.

The conference sessions will be shared over the course of the month of July, to be viewed asynchronously.

Visit the AAEEBL website to learn more about the event.

What's new and different:

  • Learn: AAEEBL has taken four original conference themes -- portfolio pedagogy, digital ethics, engaging campus stakeholders, and high impact practices -- and turned them into four weeks of asynchronous and synchronous events. Every live session will be recorded.
  • Apply: Each week's activities are designed to support faculty as they move from learning about a topic to putting those concepts into action. Live 'playshops' will support participants at every level of experience.
  • Share: Each week AAEEBL will curate a gallery of resources, tools and strategies shared by the community during synchronous discussions and an asynchronous 'collaboratory.'

 

 

Humanities DC has announced two grant opportunities. Proposals are due July 31st.

Soul of the City Grant Applications, for humanities-focused youth programming

Soul of the City provides young people, ages 14 to 19, an opportunity to explore the role of the humanities in asking and answering critical questions about the world. The Soul of the City grant encourages the development and delivery of a high-quality humanities-driven youth engagement program. The award recognizes innovative models that empower and engage young people in programs that build civic engagement, critical thinking and leadership skills. This opportunity is part of the Humanities Grant Program supported with funding from the District of Columbia Government through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Humanitini Curators Grants

"Applications for the Humanitini Curators Grant are due this Friday, July 31st. We are looking forward to the broad range of programming the awarded curators will produce for the coming fall. Though many upcoming Humanitini programs will take place virtually, the schedule is sure to be filled with insightful, must-hear conversations led by scholars working in the academy and in Washington, DC's neighborhoods and communities. It is difficult to predict the topics that will be proposed, but it's likely that some prospective curators will apply for programs related to COVID-19 and the city's ongoing protests for racial justice. We believe that documenting the voices of Washingtonians on the front lines of these historic events is a key responsibility for HumanitiesDC and the wider community of public humanities practitioners in the city."

The Association of American Colleges and Universities has recently launched a new webpage listing resource links.  Educating for Democratic Justice: Civic Teaching Online, Anti-Racism Resources, and Assessment.

The resource is created, "for members of higher education committed to engaged, participatory, collective civic learning through differences worried that moving all learning online would diminish the transformative learning possible as well as offering resources on anti-racism, a dimension of civic learning and democratic engagement, and key assessments for civic and diversity learning."

This page offers some beginning steps in three areas:  online civic engagement strategies in the time of COVID-19anti-racism resources; and ways to assess student civic learning.

Community Engagement in the COVID-19 Reality

The Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement (JHEOE)  is sharing a call for proposals for an upcoming special issue.  This special issue invites proposals that are research articles, reflective essays, projects with promise, or relevant dissertation overviews related to the theme of “Community Engagement in the COVID-19 Reality.”  This issue is being guest-edited by Dr. Brian Davenport and Dr. Barbara Holland.

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The Nashman Center staff has had useful conversations recently, stirred by the following share by Will Brummet, our Program Manager for Co-Curricular Programs.
"For those who are on Twitter or Instagram, the #BlackinIvory dominated the weekend as over 9,000 black faculty, staff, students, and administrators detailed their experiences in predominantly white university spaces and institutional structures. As a white staff member (#spoileralert), reading the thread of stories was challenging, enlightening, and humbly inspiring to do and be better, both individually and collectively as an institution, no matter how aware or unaware I was prior to reading some of the accounts.
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. today is a conversation with the creators of the hashtag (Joy Melody Woods and Sharde  M. Davis), and I found it enlightening enough that I wanted to pass along to others. It's a good intro to the reason for the hashtag if you are not familiar, and if you did read stories this weekend, it's a good follow-up to see where the creators want to go from here with it. I just wanted to pass along in case other folks were also interested."

Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow, Community Health Psychologist, Assistant Professor of Writing, and Affiliate Faculty Member of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, was recently quoted in the NY Times and Mashable. To learn more about Dr. Barlow's recent and ongoing work, please click here. ...continue reading "Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow in the NY Times and Mashable"

Free Webinar, June 9th, 2-3pm (the webinar will be recorded)

Register here 

"Fresh off a spring semester dominated by upheaval and uncertainty, we all must now prepare for an unpredictable fall semester and beyond. Moderated by AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella, this virtual roundtable will explore a range of possible scenarios that could further upend admissions, curricula, and staffing. National experts and campus leaders will discuss the future of online learning, share ideas for supporting students and closing equity gaps, and offer advice for articulating the value of higher education as colleges and universities continue to adjust in the wake of COVID-19."

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The Campus Compact webinar series is back for Summer 2020 with a special series focused on the needs of campuses as they think about how to prepare for the Fall semester in light of COVID-19.

Webinars touch on topics like online service-learning,  partnerships, and risk management. Each session will include a 30-minute breakout group to discuss these topics with colleagues from across the country, share insights, and ask questions. Join us.

For more information and to register.

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Join DMV leaders to engage and share insights on the possibility for greater collaboration across the region. Regional leaders will discern what this moment demands of us to make DMV more racially equitable.

Thursday, June 11th  |  12p – 2p
https://Zoom.us/join

NOTE: The video call will be interactive. During the call you will have an opportunity to provide feedback and participate in a poll through Slido.com. Additional details will be provided during the call.

The Rodham Institute invites us all to join them, June 17th, 6pm, for a groundbreaking conversation in the Rodham Impact Speaker Series, Rated R:  Unpacking Whiteness in the Face of Racism
This conversation will be live streamed from Rodham's Facebook page:

GW Rodham Institute

We encourage you to participate in #GWInSolidarity, a series of programs and dialogues grounded in providing the GW Community with space to process, heal, learn, and work towards action against hate and oppression. 

This series is being hosted by the Office for Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement and the Collaborative for Inclusive Excellence. Programs are open to all members of the GW community, so please share with colleagues and students. 

Register here.  go.gwu.edu/GWInSolidarity

Read on for the program schedule:

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